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...look just like a Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Old Hand, New Job | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...undertaker was beside himself ("This is criminal!"), and his caller finally let him off the hook by switching to his natural voice: "Hi there. This is Jonathan Winters. Only kidding." Exploded the undertaker: "You were an idiot even in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 4--Tom Skypeck, Cornell's spectacular, triple-threat quarterback, won an individual battle with Crimson signal-caller Charlie Ravenel on this summery afternoon at Schoellkopf Field as the Big Red defeated Harvard...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Cornell Staggers Crimson, 21-14 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...First Caller. Sorrowfully, Alcorn got word to Adams, then off fishing in Canada, that he was wanted back in Washington. Adams knew that there was only one possible reason for his required return. He was back at his White House desk by 8 o'clock the following Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Adams | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...first caller was Meade Alcorn, who talked for an hour while Adams sat impassively, head thrown back, looking at the ceiling, nibbling on a stem of his glasses. When Alcorn finally finished, Sherman Adams agreed to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Exit Adams | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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